A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors by Leopold, Ellen

A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807065136)

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A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors by Leopold, Ellen

A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors

$18.00
A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors by Leopold, Ellen

A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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The first cultural history of breast cancer, this book examines the social attitudes and medical treatments that together defined the modern relationship between women with the disease and their doctors. At the heart of the book are two unpublished correspondences-one between Barbara Mueller, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer eighty years ago, and her surgeon, William Steward Halsted, father of the radical mastectomy, and the other between Rachel Carson, who was writing Silent Spring as she was battling breast cancer, and her personal physician George Crile, Jr.

Author: Ellen Leopold
ISBN-10: 0807065137
ISBN-13: 9780807065136
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2000
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.99w x 0.91d
By Ellen Leopold
By Ellen Leopold
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Ellen Leopold is a member of the Women's Community Cancer Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has written breast cancer and women's health-care articles for The Nation, the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe, among others.

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